Blends interpretive essays with primary source documents (diaries, letters, travelogues, official documents and messages, newspaper reports, oral interviews) to provide a firsthand, widely varying, and distinctly human portrait of events and trends that shaped the lives of everyday Americans. Covers Father Marquette's accounts to pioneer life, to the Lincoln-Douglas debates, the "Gilded Age", the prohibition era, the Great Depression, and the period of 1951-1976 in Chicago
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
v. 1. Colonial years to 1860.--v. 2. Civil War to the present
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Sutton, Robert P; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)
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